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Answer to all:
"Gentlemen, I see you did you best - at least I hope so! But after all I suppose I am stuck here to go on reading the SEOmoz blog if I can't sqeeze more secrets from you!

What about:

RewriteRule ^index.php?page=(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]

I would like to know more facts regarding Google Local. When is Google showing e.g. the 3-pack, the 7-pack etc. As far as I know there are two diffrent algorythms which can be displayed.

Sometimes we handle such small websites, too, and yes we do get good SEO results. Of course not with high competitive keywords - this would be kind of "David against Goliath".

Just take care that your on-page optimization is done well. If you can build up some backlinks, social media presence, social media mentions etc. - the more the better of course.

I highliy recommend you to follow Andy Atkins-Krüger of www.webcertain.com - Search Engine Land Contributor http://searchengineland.com/author/andy-atkins-kruger with many useful posts as well as blog posts written on http://searchenginewatch.com/author/1831/andy-atkinskruger

Additionally to usability and seo purpose you can let them change the term "search" in the url - they have the english word in all three languages - perhaps they can change it to "vacance", "urlaub" and "holiday".

The 3 resources you mentioned are stil valuable.

A tipp regarding JoeAnt, it is quiet easy to become an editor there, then you don't have to pay for the input.

It's not that Google does not like that - Google just suggest not to use duplicate titles. It is not the best for the user experience as well es for the not optimized pages - for what ever reason they are not optimized :-). Titles are an important for seo, usability and they appear in the search snippets, so they have there in important role to play, too.

But it has not a negative effect on the optimized pages.

Hi Stuart,
title tag optimization is an important onpage ranking factor.
Just keep in mind the following items:

• the title should not be longer as seventy characters in lenght (although the spiders can read them, they are not displayed with more than 70 characters and regarding usability it is best to stay below that number)
• your most prominent keyword(s) should be - as you already wrote - at the left of the title
• don't keyword stuff the title
• just explain in short terms what the visitors are going to find on that page
  By the way - I love this tool here http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html

I would suggest to add your brand to the title - you can do that after your category page(s).
Each page should be treated as an individual (starting) page and like that your potential visitors can identify the brand, too and are more comfortable to click.

I have never heard about a negative aspect regarding SEO if a title is too short. Just try to keep your title as natural as possible.

E.g. buying a 72 hours day pass - http://www.linkresearchtools.com/products-overview/ for Euro 20,- - worth the money - even Ann Smarty recommended the tool.

The title looks a little overdone and cluttered to me. If the Ranch name has the word "Ranch" in, you have that three times in your title.
There will be certainly better solutions. Furthermore there are no separators in it - in my opinion this makes it hard to read, too.
You have the country, town, brand and activity in there - perhaps you can match e.g. to put one topic better on different pages so you clear your title.

We had a similar question over here too: http://www.seomoz.org/q/page-title-tags-seo-vs-cro- perhaps you find some answers there, too.

Hi Casey - I can't click any more "Helpful" answer - but I like this one most! That is definetifely true!!

Hi Carlito,

first of all there must be this breadcrumb information in the content of the page that Google can identify and understand it.

Take a closer look at this link http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185417

Salut Neill,
tu peut, mail je crois que tu voudrais atteintre plus de réponses qui tu pose tes questions en anglais ;-).
En fait, tu t'as répondre à la question toi-meme. Avec tiret le domain est plus spammy.

Une autre raison est, qu'on peut rappeler mieux la variation sans tiret.

Une option sécure serait de réserver toul lex deux variantes (en utilisation un 301 via htaccess).

I would recommend following the step by step guidance of Google in the Webmaster Tools -> Configuration -> Change of Address:

1. Set up your content on your new domain.

2. Redirect content from your old site using 301 redirects.

3. Add and verify your new site to Webmaster Tools.

They offer further guidelines here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105

Hi Jonathan,

the same content in different languages is no duplicate content.

If you want to dip deeper into the language / country problem I suggest you the following WBF Rand recently showed us: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

I added some suggestions here, too:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/international-seo-part-2

Seems to be a bug - I just sent them a report

Do you see their usage in usability and / or regarding SEO?

What about the position? Normally they are embeded in the top area ... what if I have a really long page and I embed them at the bottom of the page. Isn't that positive for the user - he doesn't have to scroll up again. But what about the SEO purpose if they are at the botton in the nirvana?

Are breadcrumbs navigational links and have less value because of that?

Hi Daniel,

If you click the submit button in you Google Places account, Google makes the call right away - should "normally" be no big deal. I made the experience though, that sometimes the customers are overburden with that phone call option, that's why I mostly take that postcard option. It can definetifly be up to one month or 5 weeks if they get the card. I just tell the customer several times that they have to look at their mail very properly because this post card with the pincode is very very unimpressive.

In the Google Places profile is the address and phone nr° of the business location - so you only have the chance to verify it by yourself if you are present when the phone call or the sms from Google comes in.

I strongly suggest keeping the german url's on the german domain, too.
For usability and for seo purpose.
The Germans won't search for the english terms and text - so it is kind of useless, too.

If you don't have the possibility to translate your whole website and you want to add those pages where you don't have any translation put at least a GERMAN url on the page. Then you can explain in short terms that this page is only existing in english language and refer them to the english dependant - or even put in the Google translation widget (but we all know that this is  not a perfect translation at all, but better than nothing).